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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English and Chinese tex.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 22.5 x 29 cm; 1.7 Kg.; 339 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Jointly presented by the Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Archaeology and the Tsui Museum of Art.; Exhibition catalogue.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket, namely edge wear, some scratches, scuffs and wear signs on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior in very good condition apart from a signature on title page. Very good condition overall. The dust jacket is protected with a clearcover.; "The year 1987 marked a turning point in the study of Chenghua porcelain. In the spring of that year and the following winter, the Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Archaeology carried out excavations at three locations where shards of rejects of the imperial Chenghua kilns had been purposefully deposited. The thousands of specimens excavated were so significant that they continue to be regarded by some as the most important discovery in ceramic archaeology since the founding of the People's Republic. Chenghua wares restored from these finds include familiar items such as doucai chicken cups, stem-cups with a grapevine design, cups painted with scenes of scholars in a garden, jars with the character 'tian' on the base, and various types of blue-and-white wares. There are also some types never recorded in literature or held in current collections. These include sancai censers in the form of a duck, underglaze blue bottles with an elongated neck, bowls with white dragons reserved against a sacrificial red ground, bowls with white phoenixes reserved against a cobalt blue ground, and vases and basins with Guan and Ge type glazes. None of these types of Chenghua wares had previously been recorded. The Tsui Museum of Art is honoured to have the opportunity to collaborate with the Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Archaeology in mounting the present exhibition of 126 selected specimens of Chenghua wares, and arranging the publication of A Legacy of Chenghua - Imperial Porcelain of the Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zhushan, Jingdezhen, a scholarly work which not only contains valuable first-hand information on Ming imperial kilns and ceramic technology, but also provides an overview of the art, culture and court life of that period. This catalogue also features the illustrations necessary for defining and identifying Chenghua imperial wares." excerpt from the preface by T.T. Tsui J.P., Autumn, 1993. …